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- From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
- Subject: Re: *Any* kind of r.a.b split, or at least a *serious* discussion
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.120951.8768@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:09:51 GMT
- Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael
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- Mark Taranto writes:
- >Due to the recent unpleasantness in this group, I am seriously considering
- >whether it is worth continuing my participation here.
-
- Maybe the split in r.a.b could be along the lines of
- -- rec.arts.books.sidney-smith*
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- good-naturedness, banter and high toned whimsy permitted, discursiveness
- expected but not required. This would be the venue for maintaining the
- illusion that work need not be done.
-
- -- rec.arts.books.greco-roman
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- gruntin' and rasslin' and posturin' and defendin' High Culture: logic,
- citations, and axes to grind required. This would be the venue for
- showing off, putting down, and sustaining that all important illusion
- that work is being done.
-
- *Nothing sacred in the name. eb-white would do. thomas-waller. The
- exact name is negotiable.
- --
- Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> One never knows, do one?
-